I Hope At Least That The Following

It Is Not Possible To Remake This Country, To Democratize It, Humanize It, Make It Serious, As Long As We Have Teenagers Killing People For Play And Offending Life, Destroying The Dream, And Making Love Unviable. If Education Alone Cannot Transform Society, Without It Society Cannot Change Either.

But Almost Always, During The Initial Stage Of The Struggle, The Oppressed, Instead Of Striving For Liberation, Tend Themselves To Become Oppressors, Or Sub Oppressors. The Very Structure Of Their Thought Has Been Conditioned By The Contradiction Of The Concrete, Existential Situation By Which They Were Shaped. Their Ideal Is To Be Men; But For Them To Be Men Is To Be Oppressors

The More Students Work At Storing The Deposits Entrusted To Them, The Less They Develop The Critical Consciousness Which Would Result From Their Intervention In The World As Transformers Of That World. The More Completely They Accept The Passive Role Impressed On Them, The More They Tend Simply To Adapt To The World As It Is And To The Fragmented View Of Reality Deposited In Them.

The More People Participate In The Process Of Their Own Education, And The More People Participate In Defining What Kind Of Production To Produce, And For What And Why, The More People Participate In The Development Of Their Selves. The More People Become Themselves, The Better The Democracy.

It Would Be A Contradiction In Terms If The Oppressors Not Only Defended But Actually Implemented A Liberating Education.